Yugantar Film Collective

Yugantar Film Collective (also known as Yugantar) was an all female feminist film collective founded in Bangalore, India, in 1980 by Deepa Dhanraj, Abha Bhaiya, Navroze Contractor, and Meera Rao. It was the first feminist film collective in India.[1] Between 1980 and 1983, during a time of radical political transformation in India, Yugantar created four pioneering films together with existing or ensuing women's groups.[2][3] Yugantar filmed in different locations in India. They collaborated with a group of domestic workers in Pune,  documented female factory workers in Nipani, worked with Sri Shakhti Sanghatana, a feminist research and activist collective based in Hyderabad and with members of the Chipko movement.[4]

A retrospective of the films of Yugantar was shown at Berlinale as part of Forum Expanded in 2019. The films were digitally restored and archived by Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art (Institut für Film und Videokunst) in Berlin.[5]

Filmography
  • 1981 Molkarin (Maid Servant); 25 min.
  • 1982 Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali (Tobacco Ember); 25 min.
  • 1983 Idhi Katha Matramena (Is This Just a Story?); 25 min.
  • 1983 Sudesha (As Women See It); 30 min.
  • 1991 Something Like A War by Deepa Dhanraj; 63min.

References
  1. "Arsenal: Of Strikes, Visions and Friendships – The Yugantar Film Collective". Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  2. Kishore, Shweta. "Transcending testimony: an interview with filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj". The Conversation. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  3. Wolf, Nicole (2018-09-01). "Is this just a story? Friendships and fictions for speculative alliances. The Yugantar film collective (1980–83)". The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ). 7 (2): 252–266. doi:10.1386/miraj.7.2.252_1. ISSN 2045-6298.
  4. "Arsenal: Of Strikes, Visions and Friendships – The Yugantar Film Collective". Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  5. "Idhi Katha Matramena | Is This Just a Story?". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
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